[OSM-talk] Spam spam spam spam
Our lovely little mapping hobby is now so uber-successful that the spammers have noticed it. A few more keep creeping through the net. What should a spam-spotter do on noticing some spam? I've pasted a few I've spotted here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Spam but am unsure what to do about it. In particular, on the wiki, is it simply a matter of deleting all content from the page, or does that leave it in the history for spiders to pick up? cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Spam spam spam spam
Tom Hughes wrote: A wiki admin can delete it properly, and block the account. Hokay. I guess what I'm trying to ask is whether there's a procedure (e.g. flagging spam on a wiki page, or category, which several people can follow) which might reduce the inevitably OSM tendency for the way to get something fixed is to mail TomH. I'm trying to be considerate. ;) cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Spam spam spam spam
On Sunday 02 November 2008, 23:06:05, Richard Fairhurst did write: Tom Hughes wrote: A wiki admin can delete it properly, and block the account. I guess that would involve nasty backdoor business in the database. Probably best to start working within the Mediawiki app, I reckon. I remember when Wikipedia announced that they were adding rel=nofollow attributes to all external links to deter spammers. That's because $POPULAR_SEARCH_ENGINE honours it. Not sure if it had the desired effect. Relies on spammers knowing this and caring/bothering (in our case). Hokay. I guess what I'm trying to ask is whether there's a procedure (e.g. flagging spam on a wiki page, or category, which several people can follow) which might reduce the inevitably OSM tendency for the way to get something fixed is to mail TomH. I'm trying to be considerate. ;) Wikibots, possibly assisted by user-contributed flags. Check out which bots Wikipedia use. I think they are open sourced and even have articles! (Sorry, it's too late to research this better.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Status Perhaps you could name the first bot in Tom's honour? ;~) Good luck. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Spam spam spam spam
Hugh Barnes wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2008, 23:06:05, Richard Fairhurst did write: Tom Hughes wrote: A wiki admin can delete it properly, and block the account. I guess that would involve nasty backdoor business in the database. Probably best to start working within the Mediawiki app, I reckon. Whatever a wiki admin does (and I'm not one so have no idea) is entirely done from the web interface - they have no special access to the database. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Spam spam spam spam
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it simply a matter of deleting all content from the page, or does that leave it in the history for spiders to pick up? On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: A wiki admin can delete it properly, and block the account. Hokay. I guess what I'm trying to ask is whether there's a procedure (e.g. flagging spam on a wiki page, or category, which several people can follow) which might reduce the inevitably OSM tendency for the way to get something fixed is to mail TomH. I'm trying to be considerate. ;) Wiki admins can mar an whole page as invisible very easily, it's much harder to delete single revisions of a page. If you happen to be an admin you can read the handbook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Administrator's_Handbook/Page_Deletion -- /emj -- /emj ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
